By Marguerite Johnson, Terry Ryan
ISBN-10: 0415173302
ISBN-13: 9780415173308
This Sourcebook comprises quite a few unique translations of old poetry, inscriptions and files, all of which light up the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity.
The targeted creation presents complete social and historic context for the resources, and publications scholars on how you can use the cloth such a lot successfully. topics similar to marriage, prostitution and same-sex appeal are provided relatively, with fabric from the Greek and Roman worlds proven facet by way of aspect. This strategy permits readers to interpret the written documents with a whole expertise of the several context of those separate yet similar societies. Commentaries are supplied all through, targeting vocabulary and social and old context.
This is the 1st significant sourcebook on historic sexuality; will probably be of specific use on comparable classes in classics, old heritage and gender reports.
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8 The daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice. Delphi predicted that her son would slay Acrisius, who thus locked Danae in a chamber to prevent her impregnation. Jupiter lusted after her and visited her in the form of a shower of gold, begetting by her the hero, Perseus. 9 Aegina. Jupiter carried her off, begetting by her Aeacus, the ancestral hero of the island named after his mother. 10 Daughter of Uranus and Tellus (Gaia). A sister of Saturn (Cronus), therefore aunt of Jupiter (Zeus), her name means ‘Memory’.
In the Archaic era, for example, the literary sources are almost exclusively non-Athenian, while in the Classical age, Attic sources dominate. 2 Prostitution flourished in Greece from the early Archaic period. On male and female prostitution, cf. Dover 1978 (19–109); Keuls (153–203); Halperin 1990 (88–112); Kurke (106–50). 3 Dem. 122. 4 For an introduction to women in ancient Greece and Rome, cf. ; Blundell. 5 There are exceptions: Spartan aristocratic women did have access to land and inheritance; likewise, the women of Gortyn (also from Dorian stock) enjoyed a less restrictive lifestyle to women in other parts of Greece.
14. 3 Asterie, daughter of Coeus and Phoebe, was the sister of Leto (cf. 1 n. 18). 4 Wife of Tyndareus of Sparta who was seduced by Jupiter in the shape of a swan. Her children included Helen and the Dioscouri. 5 Antiope, daughter of Nicteus (or Asopus, Od. 260); she gave birth to twins, Amphion and Zethos, the builders of Thebes. 6 On Alcmene, cf. 1 n. 16. She is called Tirynthian after the epithet commonly applied to her son, Hercules (stepson of Amphityron of Tiryns). Sexuality in greek and roman society and literature: a sourcebook 24 7 The verb ludere means to dally with someone in an erotic sense, to sport, frolic; to deceive; also at l.
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